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My son's primary school announced via the school app that they can get £400 of musical instruments if they get 500 vouchers.
So far so good.
Turns out the vouchers are from the Sun and available daily.
I'm doing some mental gymnastics based on the common good of helping provide musical instruments Vs buying the sun .
How many Guardians would I need to buy to balance out a week or two of Sun purchases?
Just donate the cover price of the Sun to the school....
Nasty. Is The Scum paying and will they come out up on the offer?
The Graun’s for Champagne socialists anyway. Donate to Shelter and say some prayers to the god of unscratched stanchions.
Yep - we gave money to school rather than buy the Daily Mail many years ago...
Sun would not get a penny of mine. Donate a sum to the school.
Yep, donate the sum. No place in hell hot enough.
The donation suggestion is good. If the school publicised it, they may attract more non-Sun readers to donate.
Given the paper appears to be 80p anyway, why don't the school just fund raise the £400 instead.
Buy some random music instruments off Facebook market place. There must be hundreds of unused recorders, guitars, violins , clarinet and saxomophones that get bought, used for a year then gathering dust in a wardrobe
Yeah, all good comments, echoing my thoughts. I thought a whip round would make sense.
My son’s primary school announced via the school app that they can get £400 of musical instruments if they get 500 vouchers.
Given the paper appears to be 80p anyway,
So turning that around,
If your son's school spend £400 on musical instuments, they get 500 free copies of The Sun.
The cynic in me suggests it's a morally dubious way to increase sales of shady tabloid papers... quite (un)suprising that a school should fall for such a blatantly politically biased marketing tactic.
Also, a gibson SG costs a bit more than £400.
Seriously though, just give money to charity directly on the low key if you want...that's what I do. You don't need a middle man (especially a tabloid paper) talking thier cut for admin/publicity costs.
They'll just end up with a job lot of recorders which will no doubt get sent home at the end of year and then you'll have to listen to hot cross buns continually whilst grimacing smiling.
Lol, yeh, the school will probably end up with a bunch of conch shells and some cheap plastic drum sticks from ali-express 🙂
The recorder, the only instrument that still sounds shit after you’ve learned to play it.
Just donate the money and balance out those buying the Sun by stealing and burning 400 copies of it!
It’s all ocarinas and ukeleles nowadays
He does go on about a ukelele....
The only possible use for any copy of The Scum or the Daily Heil is to line the bottom of the rabbit or guinea pig cage.
But PLEASE make sure there's a top layer of pain paper too as we don't need bunnies or piggies reading that stuff and turning into right wing intolerant racists.
£400 ain't buying you much these days anyway. Peter Green's Les Paul was up for circa £2m when Kirk Hammett got his hands on it. And that's a well worn second hand instrument with pickups that were made with a fundemental manufacturing defect, not something new !
They defo aren't getting a real Stradivarious!
quite (un)suprising that a school should fall for such a blatantly politically biased marketing tactic.
Tesco was doing Computers for Schools when I was in P3 so 1990?
It's nothing new.
Anyway, the Scum should be giving vouchers to buy Acro-Jacks from Machine Mart to hold the aerated concrete roofs from falling onto existing musical instruments they do have.
The recorder, the only instrument that still sounds shit after you’ve learned to play it.
Yeah it's completely shit.
They defo aren’t getting a real Stradivarious!
Schools don't need Strads or Les Pauls or SGs. £400 quid will help where otherwise there is no money. But I agree that the best approach would be to organise some other fund raising. I bet with some imagination you could raise more than the Sun voucher scheme would.